"Here is how to handle being a feral…" — David Foster Wallace
"Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy."
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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site.
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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More Feral Quotes
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife…
— Kristy Hinze
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We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the…
— Yasmine Galenorn
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We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful…
— John Zerzan
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Words at night were feral things.
— Joy Williams
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Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your…
— Sharyn Alfonsi
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To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at…
— Maureen Corrigan
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too…
— Olivia Colman
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I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
— Robbie Coltraine
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Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always…
— Florence Welch
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She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it;…
— Thomas Pynchon
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The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To…
— T.H. White
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